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Ingenious Artifacts of Antiquity
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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Across
  • 1. Shadow caster revealing the passage of daylight
  • 2. Hand tool or bundle, used by Romans to describe grasp or control
  • 3. Simple machine using wheels to change force direction
  • 5. Ancient surgical technique drilling into skulls
  • 9. Early Roman water clock with floating indicators
  • 12. Ancient celestial calculator for navigating stars
  • 14. Rare ancient tool for smoothing and polishing surfaces
  • 15. Refers to an early culture known for invention of lunar clocks
  • 16. Device swinging to measure incremental time
Down
  • 4. Ancient siege engine hurling projectiles
  • 6. Science applying water pressure, first systemized by Greeks
  • 7. A track or framework used in ancient mechanical devices
  • 8. Early tool for arithmetic calculation with sliding beads
  • 10. Hand-operated rotary mill for grinding grain
  • 11. An erased or reused ancient manuscript, metaphorically a tool for knowledge preservation
  • 13. Ancient principle device preserving orientation via spinning
  • 17. Ancient Neolithic ceramic tools possibly used for storage and crafting
  • 18. Roman torsion-powered military machine for launching missiles
  • 19. To spin or rotate, describing rotary mechanisms used in antiquity

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